In 2016, a Facebook user called the Austrian Green Party politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek “a corrupt oaf“, a “traitor“ and a member of a “fascist party“. Glawischnig-Piesczek secured an Austrian court verdict that held these remarks to be libellous, and Facebook took them down for Austrian users.
But Glawischnig-Piesczek was upset that these remarks were still visible outside of Austria, so she asked the EU's highest court, the CJEU, to order Facebook to block the post throughout the world, and to use some kind of technology to prevent other Facebook users from making “equivalent comments”.
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